I hated it. Not what I was expecting. Hopefully the rest of the album is better. In all fairness though all the other band I love usually have a song or two I dislike. It just took PJ over 20 years to make one...lol
thank u Josh Evans so this time we can listen jeff bass
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Fired up the Marantz, and ran it through the Heresys before heading off to work... everything about this track sounds top notch, and I'm really loving the lyrics, too!
Is ed recycling lyrics the devotion/ocean bit makes me think of without you
haven't thought about it, but to be honest he has been doing recycling of snippets and themes since Riot Act. Some very overt, others slightly more subtle or coincidental
I had pretty damn good expectations after hearing the Bill Simmons clip and they did not disappoint! A total departure from the norm that I welcome with open arms. It’s fresh, the groove is funky, and Ed sounds great and you can tell the lyrics are coming from pure emotion.
Someone mentioned in another thread the clip had a Wesley Willis vibe to it , well guess what? Rock over London, rock on Chicago because this really whoops the llama’s ass!
I've not read all the comments in this thread as it would take me the best part of the day, however I felt the need to add my thoughts on this. I absolutely love this tune and everything about it. Love the fact that it is a departure from their more recent output and shows the creativity is still there. Love the 'funk' of the bass and guitar work, almost get a post Vs WMA/Rats/Blood vibe from it. Love the vocal performance, glad Ed has added some grit in there but then the way the layered vocal harmonies come at the end is brilliant. Love the way the song builds, to the vocal harmonies as mentioned but also really like the way the drums seem to get added to, from a simple drum machine type opening to the added kicks, etc as it goes on. Finally I really like the way this has been recorded/produced. All in all, a major thumbs up from me and it's got me really excited for the album. It seems (so far) that everything the fans were asking for post BS/LB is coming to fruition. Bring on the album, bring on the tour. Long live PJ!!
I had pretty damn good expectations after hearing the Bill Simmons clip and they did not disappoint! A total departure from the norm that I welcome with open arms. It’s fresh, the groove is funky, and Ed sounds great and you can tell the lyrics are coming from pure emotion.
Someone mentioned in another thread the clip had a Wesley Willis vibe to it , well guess what? Rock over London, rock on Chicago because this really whoops the llama’s ass!
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Im sure this has been stated already but hear I go! Went to bed thinking I was not going like it. For what ever reason I was hooked at first listen. The synthesizer is not my thing but the beat is great. I don’t think this will be a go to song from this record for me, but these damn lyrics have me obsessed. I picture this is their modem “this is not for you, FUCK YOU!”. I’m glad the artist has taken back their art and came out with something that has inspired them to return to the fans after confusing dark times (CC) as Mike stated. For me these lyrics are about the break through to getting back to this is art after a great loss to all of them, this is what we want and fuck you! Love it, love anything that fires this band up enough to keep entertaining us in a time where social media makes everyone a critic and clairvoyant to what is right or what everyone wants! Let’s go HAMILTON!!!!! Bring it!
The comparison that makes the most sense to me so far is Eminence Front. Band late in their career, trying to latch onto current trends and commercial relevance.
I hear Talking Heads + Pearl Jam + David Bowie + Muse. I heard the riff to start and almost cringed. Then I kept listening and 10 seconds later I was hooked. I think Eddie is singing in the right frequency range too, he seems to be getting used to evolving his style as his voice changes and I think it's his best-delivered vocals in ages. Really, I'm incredibly surprised, but in a great way.
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I think this could be a real banger live. Reminds me a lot of Bowie, arctic monkeys, new age type sound
Arctic Monkeys came to mind for me too.
I really dig it and can’t wait to hear this one love.
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How is everyone creaming their pants over this Flock of Seagulls shit? It has shades of You Are and Bushleaguer that I like, but that fucking synthesizer fucking ruins it.
Anything you lose from being honest You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
How is everyone creaming their pants over this Flock of Seagulls shit? It has shades of You Are and Bushleaguer that I like, but that fucking synthesizer fucking ruins it.
This is the lovely thing about music. It evolves, you evolve, the times evolve, and some will like it and others won't, and it never matters.
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The comparison that makes the most sense to me so far is Eminence Front. Band late in their career, trying to latch onto current trends and commercial relevance.
Pretty cynical take. They'd have done this 3 albums ago in the early-to-mid 2000s at the height of the indie post punk revival if that was their true motivation for this stylistic divergence. Nobody outside of the Sheerans and the Swifts of this world shifts records in any great numbers these days and, like most bands of their stature, most of their money is generated from ticket sales these days. They've never stopped selling out arenas and they just sold out Hyde Park before any new music was released, so the whole commercial relevance theory kinda falls apart there....
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How is everyone creaming their pants over this Flock of Seagulls shit? It has shades of You Are and Bushleaguer that I like, but that fucking synthesizer fucking ruins it.
This is the lovely thing about music. It evolves, you evolve, the times evolve, and some will like it and others won't, and it never matters.
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So exciting!
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My kids(6&8) are already dancing to the clairvoyants!
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Someone mentioned in another thread the clip had a Wesley Willis vibe to it
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It has shades of You Are and Bushleaguer that I like, but that fucking synthesizer fucking ruins it.
You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
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